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Don’t Blink, You Will Miss It
The Days are long, and the years are short.
There is a saying I have repeated more times than I can count. It was told to me years ago when my oldest couple children were toddlers. During that phase it felt like each day stretched on for an eternity and each moment never ended.
I did not yet understand how fast this time with small children flies by. I was stuck in the day to day of caring for small children and the overwhelming feeling of being responsible for them. I was isolated by being a stay-at-home mom and everything that goes with that.
Now my oldest daughter is about to turn 22 and my perspective has changed. I still have young children at home, but this time around it is different.
I now see how quickly the time goes.
In the moment, when I was raising my oldest children, I didn’t have the perspective of the passing of time. I was young and unaware of how fast time goes and how short the season with young children is.
Two decades of parenting small children has taught me to appreciate the years when they are small and cute and still smell like toddlers and want to sit and cuddle me. I can see the bittersweet feeling of seeing your baby become an adult and knowing that your role has changed.
